I did not notice all day, and I’m sure no one looks at my feet, because I wear uninteresting, black, tie shoes that fit my orthotics.  My orthotics are slightly different, yet comfortable and correct the angle of my feet. 

I hadn’t done that for a very long time.  I had a laugh, certainly forgave myself for doing something so silly, and thought about it.

In the old days I was a perfectionist to an extent in some areas – knitting, crocheting, sewing, playing piano, ukulele, singing, taking care of my kids and especially Leila and the activities I do on her behalf.  I had to learn to let go of  that desire for perfection.  And then I was much happier and got more things done.

Also, I learned that the only one who cared about my being perfect was me.  No one else did.  I was my own worst enemy and critic.  That’s usually the case for most people.

Now I celebrate what I do right, laugh at an learn from the things I do wrong, and continue to “fail” forward, or maybe I should rephrase that – I continue to move toward success in anything I set my mind at doing.

All I can control is what I think and what I do.  When I keep it positive good things happen – even it they’re not right away, but I never know when they will happen.  I just expect them to happen.  That’s what I’m telling the universe and expect the universe to come through one way or another.

So, here’s to 2 different shoes!

Wishing you network marketing success  by not being perfect,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer

I was thinking about this because it’s Passover and it was my turn to bring in breakfast for my team at work.  I brought in some traditional Passover foods that my family usually eats.

That sparked one of my colleagues who misses her home in Poland to tell the story of an Easter tradition that is from her homeland.

She and her family prepare baskets with sausages and other foods and take them to the church service.  The priest blesses these baskets for the holiday and everyone goes home and eats them.  But not here in Arizona.  My friend and her family drive 30 miles to find a church with that tradition. 

These traditions work for my friend and myself.  They do not need to be changed.

But the traditional methods of network marketing, such as making a list of family and friends, the “3-foot rule”, buying leads, the hard sell and closing, these do not work in today’s environment.  And if they do for the short term, they are not sustainable and definitely not duplicatable for the masses. 

And what is network marketing about?  Duplication of what you do so that you don’t have to do it forever, yet still earn a residual income check.

So happy holidays, no matter which you celebrate.

Wishing you the ability to recognize network marketing success, tradition versus what works today -

Wendy Weber, Singing Network Marketer

The game makes us more willing to work harder at this particular function.

If you’re in a network marketing company and you’re not having fun, likely you are also not having success and you will not be there very long.  And how much time are you willing to waste on that?  How much of your life are you willing to throw away? 

I can’t ever get that time back.  Can  you?  Perhaps if you know the secret of time travel.

To your network marketing success – it comes easier when you’re having fun.

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

Well, like most of us, I’ve been dealing with a lot of that lately.  There’s the stuff with my daughter Leila’s house, housemates, and support coordination.  Also, her birthday is rapidly approaching and I am preparing for that – her 30th.  And we have to fit in a snorkeling lesson for Leila  in prep for our upcoming team cruise to the  Caribbean.

I recently had to replace my computer and also my printer.  It’s never the same again.  And I’ve been dealing with Gracie’s hormones; she’s been chasing Sueño from under the TV furniture.  She took it over as her “nest” and really gets into “mommy protect the nest” attack mode.  So he’s been wary of her.  I’ve been putting her to bed early in another room to try to regulate the hours of light she receives.  That seems to be paying off, but Sueño doesn’t trust her.   By the way, they are blue-headed pionus parrots (amazons).

And I thought the kids were hormonal growing up!

Any way, like the rest of us I get  up every day, deal with what comes up, make sure I have fun doing my coaching and mentoring, and carry on with theater, music and life.

Here’s hoping you are dealing with and enjoying network marketing success – and there’s always something -

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

I don’t know about you, but I’m not a techno-genius.  I’m not even a techno-expert.  Although next to my mother I look like an expert.  My old computer had died – rather, the motherboard did and could not be replaced.  So I had to get a new computer. 

This one has Windows Vista, although I’m supposed to update to Windows 7 when my copy comes in.  The Data Doctors are having some difficulty with that.  Anyway, I’ve been reluctant to do much till I’ve upgraded.

So what next?  My HP All-In-One printer died.  First the paper pick-up feature failed – I had to keep feeding over and over till it finally took a piece of paper to print.  Then the fax died – I CANNOT do without a fax – too many papers, forms for Leila and other things for me.  So I had to get a new one of those.  Hopefully, this time the scanner will work! 

Don’t ask me how long it took me to  install or why I was on the phone with HP in India at 1:00 am.

A lot of what I do for network marketing is online – especially the Mentoring for Free processes.  We do have a pro system that I pay for and use and it works.  Only $19.95 a month for at least 4 times the cost anywhere else for all the features we get.

Meanwhile, back to work helping and mentoring others, furthering my own skills with all the live training calls and recorded calls in the database.  If you have not been successful in network marketing, this is the place to be for all the training is generic.  No company names or products are mentioned.

It’s definitely so nice to have my computer back for network marketing success – contact me anytime if you’d like the free training we offer.

Wishing you all the success you desire,

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

So, have you yet taken inventory of this past year?  Have you set your plan and goals for next year?  Many mentors counsel us to do just that.  We have to know where we’ve come from, where we are, and then we can better gage where we’re going – and better see the path to get there.

This is something I must do.  I have to do some product inventory for my taxes anyway.  I might as well throw in the inventory of my business, and maybe even my life.  As my life goes, so goes my business.  I am the architect of both.  And architechs analyze, measure, plan and draw out, so there is a plan, a set of steps to follow.

It must be the same in a successful business.  This doesn’t mean we don’t have to tweak and adjust course and plans from time-to-time.  Maybe we have to do this all the time.  When we drive a car or ride a bike we make minute corrections in direction all the time.  We just don’t notice it anymore after we gain experience,

So, here’s wishing  a very Happy New Year to all and to all, network marketing success.

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

Since I am part of a global team that is a family, both my Mentoring for Free mastermind family and my team mastermind family, we support each other wherever we are in the world, thanks to the magic and instantaneous connection via technology.

Talk about positive energy!  MLM works best when you have a team that loves each other, works together, supports each other, and leaves greed and ego at the door.

I want to thank Michael and Linda Dlouhy, founders of Mentoring for Free, and all the great mentors and coaches, including Richard Dennis,  Don Standard, Sarah Thompson, Judi Sheehan, Patti  Blevins, Bob and Anna Bassett, Marcello Lisi, Cynthia Breed, Penny Dude, Walter Reade, and the technology people who record trainings, including Ken Klemm, Dwight Baker, Kim Bolte, Kathy Moffatt.

Thank you for your great service to us all.  Wishing you a wonderful holiday season, a fantastic new year.  Let’s go mentor’em in 2010.

Wishing you all mlm success and holiday cheer,

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

A lot of people think this is a lousy time to do mlm business.  Actually, it’s a wonderful time.

Many companies have special offers for products and incentives and, hopefully, these can be used as presents or just a way to get ahead in the company or stock up on product, points, whatever it is with your company.   And it’s a great time to introduce to family and friends to what you are doing through either gifts or the “magic sequence of words” as taught to us by the incomparable Tom “Big Al” Schreiter, one of my favorite mentors.  I like his no-rejection methods.

I am giving a favorite product to all the staff who take care of my daughter Leila and her roommates at her house.  One joined my business and the others probably won’t, which is just fine.  If they ever become customers, that would be great, and if not, that’s okay, too.

So have fun, be well, eat wisely, and enjoy the holidays.

Wishing you network marketing success and happy holidays -

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

Can you tell what personality color I am?

Any way, my friend Carol and I went to Bob’s Salt River Brass concert at the Mesa Arts Center.  It was the annual salute to the veterans concert An American Dream.  This is always a good one.  The guest soloist was Peter Wilson, virtuoso violinist of the White House in D.C., and part of the President’s Own United States Marine Band, which band was here for a great concert Halloween evening.  That was a treat, all right!

Anyway, we always enjoy these concerts and Gunnery Sargent Peter Wilson was awesome – classically trained and also did the Orange Blossom Special and The Devil Went Down to Georgia.  He said that when he joined the band the conductor had him learn bluegrass. 

And he said this is the first brass band with which he has played and it was the most fun he’d had.  He’ll be back.  Yay!

Vive l’horns.

Wishing you great brass in your life,

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

The first I really heard and understood about negative connotations about money was at a presentation by Randy Gage in Tucson when I was with a prior company.  He used word pictures and stories and also used the movie Titanic as an example.  Fortunately, I never liked that movie and refuse to see it again.  Then I understood why.

The message of the movie is basically that the rich people are boring and stupid and evil and the poor people are interesting, fun, resourceful, and good.  With that kind of an attitude, how can anyone ever get ahead – as soon as they get some wealth they’ll lose it because their subconscious mind will say it’s bad and create situations to get rid of wealth or stop it from accumulating.

The TrafficSwarm advertiser may just be setting himself up for failure – when people feel that having money is dirty, they tend to self-sabotage themselves in accumulating money.  Even if that expression is used in jest.  They will get so far and then start to fail.  It reminds me of “washing your mouth out with soap”.  Got to clean up, money is dirty…

It takes awareness and work to change around that thinking.  Often we cannot do it alone.  I can tell you that the best way is to turn off all negativity around  you – TV, newspapers, radio, etc. – and substitute the negative thoughts with positive ones.  Possibly you cannot do this alone.  I couldn’t. 

And also, we need to find out where our negative thoughts, programming comes from, acknowledge it, and let it go.  This can be a life-long, ongoing  process.

And, guess what?  You might find the real you inside you.  I did.  Still working on it, but doing much, much better.

Wishing you the means to get rid of the mlm success and “filthy rich’ negative connotation and embrace all the great things you can do with money,

Wendy Weber, Singing Network Marketer